The purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of economic policy uncertainty in determining the FDI inflow for 19 economies with higher incomes between 2000 and 2021. Using the panel Ardl approach, the data were examined. The dynamic fixed effect approach was selected for assessing the...

This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators, growth is highly important for the popularity of president Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are...

The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns since 2003 and the potential impact of industrial...

For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment...

International flow of capital in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered to be the primary form of capital transfer in the global economy. It plays an important role among other forms of international capital flows, due to the intensity of its streams and its strength of impact...

This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...

This paper studies the relation among real stock returns, real capital flows and real exchange rate starting from a theoretical model. The model predicts that the capital inflows affect the real exchange rate and stock returns. Besides, there is an asymmetry between the effect of capital inflows...

Government of India took initiatives to attract foreign direct investment in manufacturing sector through ‘Make in India' campaign. Eyeing to the necessary growth of manufacturing industry the central and states governments are changing their trade and investment policies. But the recent trend...

According to the data of the UNCTAD Report on global investments (WIR-2014), in 2013 Russia received the record-high indices of participation in global capital investment1. So, as regards the volumes of direct foreign investments (DFI) -- $79bn -- in 2013 Russia was rated the 3rd in the world,...

We examine how firm and country heterogeneity shape the response of corporate investment in emerging markets to changes in global interest rates and volatility. We test for the presence of (i) a financing channel originating from changes in the costs of external borrowing and (ii) a real options...